research. language. lay ethnomethodologist. broadstone based. mundane methods of pedestrianism + active travel also: D7 Play Streets, almost always (running) in the phoenix park worst taste in music: @yesboyicecream.bsky.social
the unnecessary-cardboard-sign-for-state-agency-photo-shoots industry is AI-proof
Emmet Ó BriainTriggered by more sightings, I am bringing my campaign against #holdinghashtags to this platform. Interested in international perspectives on the phenomenon of people holding physical representations of digital artifacts at campaign press launches - or is it a peculiarly Irish thing?
A detailed Reddit discussion on: The Pragmatics of Temporal Expressions in Professional Requests in the Irish Workplace “When an Irish colleague says a task is "not urgent at all," how do you know whether they secretly mean it needs doing today anyway?” www.reddit.com/r/AskIreland...
besides enjoying the very headhunters-meets-a-midi-can vibe of this Horse Lords album, i just think it's a great title: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! horselords.bandcamp.com/album/demand...
Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, by Horse Lords12 track albumhorselords.bandcamp.comThe All-Ireland Poc Fada competition takes place on Monday in its spiritual home on the Cooley Mountains, where women and men of all ages will hit a sliotar up and down the mountain to recreate the legend of Cú Chulainn. Great @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social explainer of the origins and history below 👇
Emmet Ó BriainThe Poc Fada was on today ... hitting a sliotar up and down a mountain is such a brilliant premise for a national competition. Great @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social article on its origins and history... www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
hypothesis: Linkedin recruiting users as volunteer annotators, not to improve the ux of app degraded by the platform's automation (and structural incentivisation) of a specific type of shitty content, but to make the automated shitty content harder to identify as automated
Anthony Moser@mosermostly.bsky.social had what is likely the correct read: that they will use this to train a bot to seem less botlike
tangential, but whenever someone tells me that they believe 'x' to be generally true about a particular community/country because they were told so by someone from there, I think of the many people from my own community/country who I hope no one would listen to or trust as having any great insight.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwòthe written record of antiquity, for reasons I hope are obvious, over represents the blinkered moral perspectives of that day's most powerful people. you should take the care with generalizing from their opinions that you'd want a foreigner to take if a tech CEO was asked about your country's morals
move over cargo bikes, make way for camper bikes!!
Johnnie JohnstoneMorning shift. Sprite 400 Caravan, 1966
just listening to this now - it rocks (gently)
odubhdaNow playing: Wendy Eisenberg. wendyeisenberg.bandcamp.com/album/wendy-...
i love how this shows that you can enjoy sport, support your team and if things don’t go your way, just choose to be generous in defeat!
RTÉ NewsKerry fans 'happy for Mayo' after All-Ireland final loss
there's a received wisdom in many state agencies that active travel advocacy should steer clear of upsetting or offending motorists ... but this public safety ad from 1986 demonstrates the clarity of a more confrontational approach! (h/t to @johnmunro.bsky.social for putting it in my timeline!)
Stephen Holden Bates@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org Thought you’d be interested in this 1986 Department of Transport advert in the NME…
I feel like people in favour of policy goals such as reducing social inequality or promoting inclusion should explicitly subscribe to and advocate for this idea
BeijingPalmermy feeling on this is that any system is going to have a certain number of grifters and you just have to accept that it is far more important to help deserving people than to not help undeserving ones. you can do your best but gatekeeping is generally much crueler than needed.
Most reporting of this today has been along the lines of: OpenAI reluctantly confess their new models are just 'that damn good' (also, many breathless accounts of The Algorithmic Great Escape)
tanteNo, OpenAI's new magic models did not autonomously hack Huggingface. Per OpenAI's PR blog post (https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/):
From Viviana Zelizer’s Pricing the priceless child (1985) “Children cannot obtain space and can lose rights to what they have when others demand more, so children suffer…the new 20thC rules for urban outdoor space, designed by adults for their convenience, constricted the public life of children.”
Alison StenningI'll go with Skenazy's headline - "If you want your kids to thrive this summer, don’t just turn off their phones – open your front door, too" - but not this: "the original experience blocker is fear". Blaming parental fear avoids big questions about cars, hostile public space, and austerity.
capitalism serves capitalism (whether it’s pyrex or privatization!)
NashOff topic I know, but it's fascinating to me how 70+ year old Pyrex glassware remains a precious heirloom because capitalism determined making real borosilicate glass wasn't worth it. So now your newly made Pyrex shatters in the oven.
"My only crime was flying a plane full of cocaine into the Midlands"
The JournalA pilot who flew an €8.4 million consignment of cocaine into the Midlands claims he was a "people pleaser" and childhood trauma made him vulnerable to a "Walter Mitty" drug smuggler jrnl.ie/7097832